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Ramsey County History – Spring 1970: “Murder Most Foul! Early “Historian” Solves Murder of Whatever Happened to “Pigs Eye” Parrant”
Edward J. LettermanMurder Most Foul! Early “Historian” Solves Mystery of Whatever Happened to “Pigs Eye” Parrant Author: Edward J. Letterman In 1868 New York writer, publisher, and fabulist “Col.” Hankins published a history of St. Paul entitled Dakota Land; or, The Beauty of St. Paul, “an altogether charming conglomeration of local…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1970: “Forgotten Pioneers: John R. Irvine”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyForgotten Pioneers: John R. Irvine John R. Irvine (1812–1878) came first to St. Paul in 1843 from Prairie du Chien with a sleigh full of groceries to “look over the field which had been represented to him by his old friend, Henry Jackson, as the Eldorado of the Northwest.” He liked…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1970: “Board of Directors”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Board of Directors…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1969: “Student, Protests, Marches: 100 Years Ago at the University”
Edward J. LettermannStudent, Protests, Marches: 100 Years Ago at the University Author: Edward J. Lettermann The first years of the University of Minnesota were hard, debt-ridden, and tumultuous. A territorial university had begun in 1852, but closed in 1858. Undergraduate classes at the state university began in 1869 with…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1969: “The Letters of Samuel Pond, Jr.: Students Cooked Their Food, Built Their Fires”
Samuel W. Pond Jr.The Letters of Samuel Pond, Jr.: Students Cooked Their Food, Built Their Fires Author: Samuel W. Pond Jr. Samuel Pond was a student at the University of Minnesota in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Many letters he wrote to his brother Judson, back home in Shakopee,…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1969: “Kellogg Boulevard: The Story of Old Third Street”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyKellogg Boulevard: The Story of Old Third Street A very short history of Third Street in downtown St. Paul from roughly 1857 to its renaming as Kellogg Boulevard in 1929. It went from being the city’s prime retail street to a wholesale business street (“this stage probably was…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1969: “Forgotten Pioneers: Bishop Joseph Cretin”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyForgotten Pioneers: Bishop Joseph Cretin A brief account of Joseph Cretin’s early life and his six years in St. Paul, 1851–1857. As a young priest in France, Cretin burned to do missionary work, but had to wait until he was thirty-nine; then he was sent to Iowa and Wisconsin.
Ramsey County History – Fall 1969: “Norman Kittson and the Fur Trade”
Clarence W. Rife and Holly WaltersNorman Kittson and the Fur Trade Authors: Clarence W. Rife and Holly Walters Few Minnesota pioneers painted on a bigger canvas than Norman Kittson (1814–1888). He traded furs around Fort Snelling in the 1830s, then he moved farther and farther north and west, to Pembina. He battled…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1969: Board of Directors
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBoard of Directors PDF of Board of Directors…